Aditya Nagavekar

Barca, football, gaming, movie buff, foodie, pop culture, ideator, day dreamer....Master of all trades, Jack of none..oh, wait! I think it's the other way round

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Your FC Barcelona World Champions. 🏆

📸 @FIFAWorldCup

[The Iran Spectator @IR_Media24]

Journalist Janine di Giovanni:

"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."

"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s Israel's right to defend itself."

[AKHY DAM @gueye_dam]

Donc il se bat avec Mbappé pour le titre de meilleur buteur, avec Olise pour celui de meilleur passeur et avec Yamal pour celui de meilleur dribbleur c’est ça ? Azy 😭

[Welsh Fan Zone TV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WelshFanZoneTV]

Unlucky England, but well done on reaching the semi final after playing, Panama, Ghana, Croatia, Congo, Mexico and Norway after qualifying from a group with Albania, Serbia, Latvia and Andorra 👏

[Aditya Nagavekar @adiosed]

Dream scenario for every Barca fan. Now no matter who wins the final, they have already won!

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@piersmorgan He played, he assisted, he conquered.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Spain’s path to the finals included:

•Austria
•Uruguay
•Portugal
•Belgium
•France

1 goal conceded….

[Aditya Nagavekar @adiosed]

Couldnt have said it better

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, bookmark it and come back later.

Do you know the biggest problem with Cristiano Ronaldo? It isn’t that he never won the World Cup. It’s that he spent years telling everyone what separates legends, only to change the standards once he couldn’t reach them himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo made it clear that winning a major international trophy was what completed a player’s legacy. At the time, Messi had just lost another international final and was going through the toughest period of his career. Those comments only added to the narrative that Messi could never be the greatest because he hadn’t won with Argentina. For years, that became the standard. Messi was called a bottler, while Ronaldo was praised as the player who had proved himself internationally.

Nobody wanted to hear about context. Nobody cared that Messi had dragged Argentina to a World Cup final in 2014 with a squad many considered weaker than the Portugal teams Ronaldo has had over the last decade. The only thing that mattered was that Ronaldo had won a major trophy with his country, and Messi hadn’t.

Then Messi won the Copa América. Suddenly, the goalposts moved. We were told one Euro was worth more than multiple Copa América titles because South America supposedly wasn’t competitive enough. That became the new excuse.

Then Messi won the World Cup. The excuses changed again. It was “fixed.” It was “scripted.” Then came, “A career can’t be defined by seven games.” Funny how nobody was saying that before the tournament, when many believed it would finally be Ronaldo’s chance to win it.

Now Portugal have been eliminated from the World Cup, and Ronaldo posts about Euro 2016 again. That’s what I find ironic. When international trophies favored Ronaldo, they were the ultimate measure of greatness. When Messi caught up, people started ranking competitions differently. When Messi surpassed him by winning the biggest trophy in football, suddenly the World Cup wasn’t supposed to define a career anymore.

That’s the contradiction.

The difference between Messi and Ronaldo was never just about goals, assists, or trophies. It’s about consistency. Messi never needed to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements to elevate his own, nor did he ask football to change its standards because they no longer favored him. He simply kept playing until he won everything there was to win.

League titles. Champions Leagues. Ballons d’Or. Golden Boots. Copa América. Finalissima. World Cup. Every major trophy that was ever used against him eventually became part of his legacy.

Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. But this is exactly why I believe Messi is the greatest. He didn’t ask football to rewrite the standards.

He met every single one of them.

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@Parth_Go Happened with me too

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This Japan side with Kubo and Mitoma in the starting 11 would have easily made them the favourites in this tie #BRAJPN #WC2026

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@NealGardner_ That goal just proved this tweet right

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@Ragassa_Hash Agree on Brussels. Apart from that one square, there is really nothing. All you need is just a day. Stay in Brugges instead and do a day trip to Brussels

[Nadjib FcB @nadjib__fcb]

القوانين لماذا لا تطبق في مباريات برشلونة؟

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@hidden_bruh Agree, thinking of doing the same. Had thought IE was better so had switched from TOI to IE. But guess have to move to Hindu now.

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@FootFerreira Which loan or buyback clause players would you get? Fort is one I would like to see back at Barca

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@UtdKobi That is superfast even in slow mo

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@GabbbarSingh Nobody deserves more than him

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@theswapnilsri Forget India, it happened with me when I booked hotels in Europe from https://t.co/5DWoUiRzlt

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@sagarcasm You forgot that she bowled brilliantly throughout the tournament

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@raggedtag Agree. She really didn't need to do it.